The Parrot came to roost in the Tapahut last year by way of HBTiki when the Bahooka was selling everything because of their upcoming sale of the land. Spring ahead seven months to the January 2014 International Tiki Market Place where I had the pleasure of sharing my vending booth with Fez Moai. He has quite the stockpile of items from the Bahooka and was having some brisk sales. I took home one of the smaller barrel lights with lettering on the top that read "MEE CHUN CANNING CO., HONG KONG". Quick research shows that the barrel could be up to 85 years old. The Tapahut is still young but there's a lot of history hanging from it's beams!

Soy Sauce Barrell Wood barrel staves held together with 4 wide metal rings and 2 narrow rings riveted to sides, around middle are two twisted bamboo rings, near the top of the barrel where there was a plug are 2 vertical metal bands extending from bottom to middle and middle to top, a tin can lid is nailed over the hole in the middle of the barrel where a tap would have been, bottom of barrel is missing; on one side 2 printed Chinese characters at the top above a line of Chinese characters and "BLACK SOY" in the middle, above printing at the bottom "GROSS 125 LBS., NET 100 LBS."; a quarter of the way around in black block letters "MADE IN HONG KONG" at top, "KOON CHUN; YUEN LONG N.T.; HONG KONG; SOY, YELLOW ??"; a quarter of a turn in the middle of the barrel is printed "WA SANG" bordered a dashed line, above"SEATTLE", above "7" at the bottom; faint printing of WA SANG on top. Barrel has deteriorated and the bands are rusty. 1997.021.023